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A wealthy couple crazy in love seems to be leading the perfect life, but nothing is ever perfect, nothing.
The woman beside her was chubby and rounded and the wrappa around her waist was hostile to the brown blouse she wore. Her head-tie was faded beige and had fallen off to the ground. Her head was shaking vehemently in rebuke and her body in total rebuff of surrender. The woman kept on bustling in roars; Obara Jesus! Obara Jesus! with her hands striding in very ridiculous rhythm.
It's that time of the year again! We welcome submissions from African writers to the December 2020 Collins Elesiro Prize. Entrants may submit up to 1 previously unpublished poem, and up to 3,000 words for fiction and non-fiction. We believe in freedom of thought and...
As a brand, we are deeply aware of the immense responsibility it is to attempt to tell African stories. Many of our African stories have been told outside of our context, without our permission and without recourse to our humanity as Africans. Therefore, as cfwriterz,...
Nigerian-American novelist and author of New York Times bestselling novel, Tomi Adeyemi, has been named as one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People alongside Nigeria's multimillionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist Tony Elumelu and physician Tunji Funsho....
The Shallow Tales Review is an African literary magazine that publishes content from African writers from across the continent. We also publish African literature from non-Africans in the Disapora.In The Shallow Tales Review, we accept fiction, articles, reviews,...
Chukwu Emmanuel's My Reflection Comes With The Innocence Of An April Rain was shortlisted for June 2020 Collins Elesiro Literary Prize. There are a thousand things to say about childhood. This thing of frenzy is vulnerablelike glass. What I am saying is a language...
It was seven in the evening on the 4th of May – and I was about to retire after another monotonous day – when word reached me that the 2020 Brunel Poetry Prize winner had been announced. Inua Ellams, appearing on the shortlist for the fourth time, did not win. Despite...
Have you ever tried searching for “writing contests” online and in less than two seconds nearly a hundred results pop up and you are left swimming through a whole lot of options that may already be defunct? Sometimes you might notice in your search that some of these...
I had just stepped out of my compound that morning when this beautiful metallic grey jeep drove past. A woman was driving. She had her kids in the back. At that time, l was crazy about jeeps, especially when it was a woman behind the wheels. I have always wanted to...
The days following isolation... MONTH 1 World seers and sorcerers lost this in their visions. One man sat in a lab somewhere. One man did a series of researches, trials and errors until he got it right. Then he blew droplets of his invention into the air and the...
CFWriterz (Itanile) is delighted to announce its September writing workshop themed Curating Your Writing Voice (in a creative world full of noise), which will be facilitated by Nigerian Poet Adebayo Kolawole Samuel and South African Author Resoketswe Manenzhe. Find...
